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Assistant Professor Rob Candler receives the Young Investigator Award

Rob Candler, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering,
has received a Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office.

His
research proposal is titled, "Energy Dissipation in Nanomechanical
Resonators." The research will explore the fundamental mechanisms in
which energy is dissipated in nanoscale vibrating structures. The role
of electronic surface states as pathways for dissipation of mechanical
energy will be investigated, as well as methods for disrupting these
pathways using atomically thin coatings. The nanoscale resonators have
the potential to impact frequency references and filters used in
communications, and they also hold the possibility to be used as a new
type of resonant sensor based on changes in energy dissipation.

Prof. Candler is the director of the Sensors and Technology Laboratory (http://stl.ee.ucla.edu),
as well as the faculty director for the Nanoelectronics Research
Facility, a multi-user nanofabrication laboratory. The Sensors and
Technology Laboratory focuses on micro and nanoscale technologies,
including resonators, 3D printed fluidic devices, and microscale
magnetic devices for free electron lasers. In addition to his
departmental affiliation, Prof. Candler has a joint appointment with the
California NanoSystems Institute.